ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to endeavour to relate what has been said with regard to the importance of impulse in Ethics to some sort of general view of the constitution of the Universe as a whole. Victory over the sexual impulse, which is the expression of the Will to renew life, and over the impulse to self-preservation by the abstention from all acts calculated to preserve life, are the final stages in the victory of the Will over its second manifestation as the Will to live. Human life has no peculiar significance, for Reality has no purpose for the fulfilment of which it can be significant; and manhood has no guarantee of permanence in the world. The good die young it has been said, because they are so bored with the prospect of a life of being good; and indeed the Life Force has as little use for goodness as it has for happiness.
